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Article: Palestinians see growing food shortages.(WORLD)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- March 7, 2007
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Byline: Joshua Mitnick Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor
KALANDIA REFUGEE CAMP, WEST BANK -- The refrigerator in the Shiham household is bare save for a container of cheese, a bucket of tomatoes, and some wrinkled cucumbers. The meat in the freezer is rationed as the family of eight lives on handouts and intermittent welfare stipends.
"Every two weeks, we eat meat. When the children miss it, we have it," says Douaa Shiham, a widowed mother of seven who often sends her children to school with no lunch. "I have no say in what we eat. I wait for the charity to come."
A sign of economic deterioration in the West Bank and Gaza, the ...